NAME

uucpsend.ctl - list of sites to feed via uucpsend

DESCRIPTION

The file /etc/news/uucpsend.ctl specifies the default list of sites to
be fed by uucpsend(8). The program is able to read site information
from other related configuration files as well.
Comments begin with a hash mark (‘‘#’’) and continue through the end of
the line. Blank lines and comments are ignored. All other lines
should consist of six fields separated by a colon. Each line looks
like
site:max_size:queue_size:header:compressor:args
The first field site is the name of the site as specified in the
newsfeeds(5) file. This is also the name of the UUCP system connected
to this site.
The second field max_size describes the maximum size of all batches in
kbytes that may be sent to this site. If this amount of batches is
reached, this site will not be batched with this run and a reason will
be logged into the logfile. This test includs all UUCP jobs, not only
the ones sent to rnews (performing ‘‘du -s’’).
The third field queue_size specifies the maximum size in kbytes of one
batch. This argument is passed directly to batcher(8).
The fourth field header defines the text that shall appear in the
command header of every batch file. ‘#! ’ is prefixed each batch.
Normally you’ll need cunbatch for compress, gunbatch or zunbatch for
gzip. This header is important since there is not standard way to
handle gzip’ed batches. Using this and the next argument you’re also
able to use any compressor you like. So you receive a certain amount
of flexibility by using uucpsend. If you don’t want to have any
compression leave the field empty.
The fifth field compressor names a program that reads from stdin and
writes to stdout. Normally it modifies the input stream by compressing
it, such as compress(1) or gzip(1).
The sixth field args consists of additional arguments that are passed
directly to uux when sending the batch.
One entry in the main configuration file is mandatory. There must
exist a line containing the default values for all these variables. To
achieve this the pseudo site /default/ is used.
One default entry could look like this:
/default/:2000:200:cunbatch:compress:-r -n
This reflects a minimal setup. The maximal size that may be used by
the UUCP spool directory is 2MB. Each batch will be max. 200 kBytes
big. The header of each batch will contain the string ‘cunbatch’ and
compress(1) is used to compress the batches. ‘-r -n’ is passed to
uux(1) which means no notification will be sent if uux was successful
and uux won’t start the uucico(8) program when spooling the file.